CNN's story on the possibility of a Senate compromise on judges contains this little gem. Republicans have said no judicial nominee has been filibustered in the Senate's history, although they filibustered the nomination of Abe Fortas to be chief justice in 1968. Actually, Republicans and Democrats briefly filibustered the Fortas nomination -- though no one […]
Well, last night I finally finished up Daniel J. Flynn's book, "Intellectual Morons." For the most part it's an interesting -- and infuriating -- read. Flynn takes aim at everyone from eugenist Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood to Alfred Kinsey a wacko pervert, much adored by the sexually evolved left, to Ayn Rand, the […]
A couple of notes on The New York Times' most inaccurate, unhinged columnist. First, his beardedness gave an interview to the Asia Times with the following gem: Tax increases: "We should be getting 28% of GDP [gross domestic product] in revenue. We are only collecting 17%." As Donald Luskin helpfully illustrates, federal tax receipts weren't […]
Unbowed, or more likely ignorant, of their previous fisking, The New York Times editorial writers continue to demostrate that I am overqualified for an editorial writing job at the nation's "paper of record." The judicial nominations debate reached a new low this week when a Republican senator compared his Democratic colleagues to Hitler. Granted, Sen. […]
Wired News reported earlier this week that a UCLA professor is working on what it accurately calls "an extremely restrictive form of digital rights management to protect DVD movies." I've criticized the Federal Communications Commission and the movie industry before for their efforts to curtail the principle of "fair use" by promoting the over-the-top, restrictive […]
But otherwise, I've never really liked Pepsi products -- so I don't have to boycott them for the utter idiocy of their COO. I mentioned Pepsi Exec Indra Nooyi's little "the world is like a hand and the continents are fingers" analogy to a few people at work. You know, everyone was able to guess […]
The only compromise on judges that I will be willing to endorse is the Patterico compromise.
An anonymous commenter in the post below had the following to say: With regard to judges and the filibuster--please note--what goes round comes round. Republicans better hope that they stay in the majority! Well, I certainly hope the GOP stays in the majority. However, I also believe that if the Republicans caved -- preserving the […]
I've had my digital video recorder saving the Senate debate on judicial nominees for posterity's sake, and I continue to be flabbergasted by one of the Democrats' weak claims to legitimacy. It's something that has been has been seen elsewhere -- like this op-ed piece in Wednesday's Union-Tribune -- but has now made it to […]